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A special broadcast of recordings from the Summer Reboot at The soundBarn (Valatie, NY) August 20, 2016. Performances from Weeping Bong Band (members of Pigeons + PG Six + Anthony Pasquarosa); Matt Weston; Century Plants (Eric Hardiman and Ray Hare: guitar, electronics vocals); and soundBarn (Thomas Lail and Patrick Weklar: guitar, effects, devices). For more information on soundBarn, The soundBarn and soundBarn Press visit soundbarn.blogspot.comMatt Weston, Eric Hardiman, and Ray Hare are founding members of Albany Sonic Arts Collective. For more information visit albanysonicarts.blogspot.comA special thanks to Eric Hardiman for the recordings and to Thomas Lail for making this broadcast possible.

Things have been (publicly) quiet around The soundBarn for far too long. Join us August 20 as we remedy that with an evening of experimental sets and sounds by soundBarn, Weeping Bong Band (members of Pigeons+PG Six+Anthony Pasquerosa), and our Albany Sonic Arts Collective comrades Century Plants and Matt Weston. AND.. We'll be recording the evening for broadcast on WGXC September 3rd... So come and whoop it up! 7pm. donations always welcome

soundBarn will be among the contributors to WGXC's Audio Buffet on Saturday July 16 at Wave Farm in Acra, NY

For the second year in a row, Wave Farm is setting up the large mixing board that Pauline Oliveros donated and hosting an event where performers can plug in and improvise together with engineers playing the board dub-style live to radio with the resulting mix an improvisational collage. More info at: https://wavefarm.org/ta/schedule/zdayf6

Tune in Saturday July 16, 12-2pm at https://wavefarm.org/wgxc or at 90.7FM

Two new releases from guitar deconstructionists Thomas Lail
and Patrick Weklar continue their exploration of the outer realms of the instrument. Drawing their name from the cavernous reverberating room where
they record, over-processed Jazzmaster guitars sputter, snarl, drone, and chime with smoky trails of feedback framing a journey into sound itself.

Recorded live to two-track at The soundBarn, May-July 2015 End of the Season features four enveloping tracks with Thomas Lail & Patrick Weklar onprocessed/prepared guitars, devices, electric organ, bells, etc. Cover image by John Lopez

Thomas Lail of soundBarn will contribute to a special simul-cast event at Wave Farm on Saturday, August 8.

This special collaborative live broadcast features artists (performers and mixers) invited to plug in to a large 32-channel mixer recently donated to Wave Farm by Pauline Oliveros. Incoming sounds will be mixed for radio broadcast during this special extra-lively edition of Other Music on WGXC.

Nick Hennies is a percussionist and composer from Louisville, KY
currently residing in Ithaca, NY. His work is primarily concerned with
an immersive, psychoacoustic presentation of sound brought about by an
often grueling, endurance-based performance practice that Nathan Thomas
of Fluid Radio described as, "a highly sophisticated and refined
performance technique...that starts and ends with listening and
encourages a different way of listening from its audience." He received
his M.A. in percussion from the University of California-San Diego in
2003 where he studied with renowned percussionist Steven Schick and is
also a member of Meridian, a percussion trio with Tim Feeney and Greg
Stuart. Prior to relocating to Ithaca Hennies was based in Austin, TX
for ten years where he performed with the Austin New Music Co-op, The
Weird Weeds and a variety of other projects.

soundBarn is the duo project of Thomas Lail and Patrick Weklar.
Previous performances have been fantastic, giving space for these cats
to conjure strange worlds of otherness from their various guitars and
preparations. Not to be missed.

Mensheviks is the collaborative group comprised of Matt Weston, Ray Hare, Mike Griffin,
and Eric Hardiman. Each of these folks should be well known by ASAC
audiences in other configurations, but if you haven't seen them perform
together under this guise, come check it out. Each performance finds
Mensheviks exploring new zones and sonic vistas.